Friday, September 5, 2008

At Whitaker's I've been doing some studies of heads in the effort to learn brush technique among other things. Bill has several old black and white daguerreotypes, some real and some copies, which are early photographs produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate, which I've been painting from. People had the most interesting hair in those days, extremely long sideburns and beards shaved to only grow under the chin.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

An illustration of a scene for children's book I'm thinking about writing. That's right. I did the illustration even before I penned the story, or story summery for that matter. Fall semester I bought cereal with the paperback Spiderwick books in it and saw what a fun style Tony Diterlizzi has and what a neat look watercolor and pen can get, so I thought I would give it a try. I ended up buying three different types of cereal to get all three books.